A bit confused here.
I note that the XNode API was committed to the scratchpad by Dave Viner
on 2002-12-27:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xindice-dev&m=104101365726281&w=2
but because of "licensing issues" [1] it seems to no longer be there.
I looked at the license on the code, which is the same license as has
been there all along (Apache 1.1) and am curious as to who and why
(or whatever) the code is no longer in the repository. I know of no
licensing or IPR issues -- the code was donated while I was still at
Sun, just as has been many other things to Apache -- this is indicated
at the bottom of the license statement. AFAIK, the XNode code
distributed in Sun's Web Services pack has this same Apache 1.1 license.
I'm currently looking into revising the API with new methods supporting
something more than name-value pairs, as I am looking into augmenting
some functionality in my own application, something like
setProperty(String,Node) rather than simply setProperty(String,String).
But I'd not propose this change for Xindice 1.1, preferring to just
get XNode 1.0 as it is into the code base.
I now have un-firewalled CVS access and am happy to re-commit the
XNode code to the scratchpad unless there are any objections. (just
enough power to be dangerous!)
Murray
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xindice-dev&m=104757928505845&w=2
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